Conclave of Wind is the next encounter that I decided to tackle in video format! For this encounter, I am on Anshal’s (nature) and Nezir’s (frost) platforms, so you will not see any excitement from Rohash’s (wind) platform in this video. This video was taken pre-4.1, so you also won’t see any of the new toys or shorter cooldowns in use during the video. I am primarily tank healing again for this encounter, so it will be similar in perspective to my Halfus video. In addition to adding some notes below, I’ve also added a couple of notes into the video!

A friendly reminder that this video will be viewed best at one of the higher resolutions and in full screen, the notes added may not be readable at lower resolutions.

A few notes!

Beru, why are you on the boring platform? To answer simply – because I put myself there! But in all honesty, I lead our raids which from time to time does have an effect on my play. I was concerned that I would not be able to give the appropriate attention needed for the wind platform while leading and would be a detriment to my raid over there. We also have a very competent healing team, and I knew that any of them would be up to the task! We usually use the a Holy Priest, Resto Shaman and Disc Priest on Rohash’s platform – but have also had a resto druid as part of that combination as well.

How do you druid the Rohash Ultimate? Now, I have never had this responsibility, but as I understand it from the druid that does it regularly “it’s the easiest job in the fight”. Once Rohash tosses you into the air, you pop into ToL and put a 3 stack on both yourself and your partner in crime (we use a shadow priest who can disperse during the ultimate, but rogues work well too), along with rejuvs and swiftmend as necessary. As Rohash finishes his Ultimate and drops you, shift over into cat form to reduce your fall damage. Your priest will be levitating themselves. Wait for the calvary to arrive, and head back to Nezir’s platform.

Why two people for Rohash’s Ultimate? The reason you want to place two people on Rohash’s platform for the ultimate is because it will mean there are more targets for him to select for Slicing Gale. This in turn means that one person won’t have 7 – 8 stacks by the end of the ultimate and there is a more even, and survivable, split of damage during (and after) the ultimate phase.

When do you know it’s time to jump back to the wind platform? With good communication! There should always be communication about the status of the wind burst between those currently on the platform to those who are returning to the platform.

WoL on Rohash’s Platform. While you are learning this encounter, it’s very beneficial to make sure that you have someone on Rohash’s platform uploading WoL so that you can determine exactly what is happening over there – as that is likely where most of your trouble with the encounter will be. If you are on the Nature/Frost platform your parses will not pick up everything from Rohash’s platform. We generally upload two different WoL each night we see this encounter: one from me, and one from Brade on Rohash.

Mind those frost patches! Towards the end of Nezir’s ultimate, the raid should scatter so that your entire raid doesn’t eat a frost patch (as you see happen in the second ultimate that I am on Nezir’s platform). You will inevitably lose folks if this happens.

Rohash’s Platform: 3 Healers, 7 DPS (combination of ranged and melee, basically people who can navigate the platform well). One thing to note here is that to use 3 healers here, your DPS needs to be sufficient to bring the storm shield down. If they are slow, no amount of extra healing will help. You may need to consider 2 healers and 8 DPS on this platform, depending on your raid.

Nezir’s Platform: 1 Tank, 2 Healers.

I hope that you found this helpful! Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

3 responses to “Healing Heroic Conclave of Wind (video guide)”

We found that having a sub rogue take Rohash ultimate alone worked better for us. He’ll just remove the stacks and shadowstep down to take no damage. Can heal himself for plenty with recuperate. During the 140 or so wipes that we had, I don’t think he ever died due to the Slicing Gale stacks. To us it would’ve probably been too risky to put another player on that platform during ultimate, not to mention you really want that healer to help out on Nezirs ultimate! It’s fun to see that tactics can look slightly different though, and that there isn’t a “best” way to do it.

How do you prevent getting the frost breath from nezir in your face as your tank and healer switch occurs? We started with this strat, but then moved to a 3rd tank to pick up nezir early to prevent getting nezir’s breath in our face when coming over from anshal.

The way that we manage it is to have the tank face away from the windstream (he faces the pillar to the side), and the healers stand across from him on the other pillar at Nezir’s back. The raid jumps over at 80 energy, including the Nezir tank’s healers, and the Nezir tanks jumps at 85 energy, after the rest of the raid has already moved. The healers that came over early from Rohash’s platform heal the Nezir tank until he moves to Anshal’s platform (remember, Rohash’s platform – save a rogue and one healer – comes over as soon as the storm shield is down).

You can see this when I transition from Nezir back to Anshal that I am on the platform a fair bit of time before my tank joins us.

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